How Oak Creek is Responding to COVID-19

We are committed to helping protect the well-being of our residents, customers, and employees. Our departments will continue to provide essential services to our residents, but we are limiting public access to our facilities at this time.

City Actions to Minimize Risk of Exposure and Slow the Spread of COVID-19

All non-essential City travel has been suspended until further notice.

All non-essential City meetings have been postponed until further notice.

We are temporarily conducting public meetings via video conference and prohibiting in-person attendance by members of the public to limit public gatherings or 10 or more people. In order to ensure that the public has an opportunity to participate. Persons wishing to participate need to register prior to the start of the meeting. If you wish to simply view the meeting please visit our live stream the day of the meeting on the City of Oak Creek YouTube Page.

Parks and playgrounds are open. We ask you to practice physical distancing, keeping at least 6 feet between you and others. Thank you to the community for cooperation with all closures and physical distancing instructions; you are helping to slow the spread of disease in our community.

Inspection requests will be received but some inspections MAY NOT be performed until the COVID-19 status improves. Note, however, that most inspections can and will still be performed, only under more stringently safe conditions. Certain types of inspections will require conducting the inspections through coordination between the contractor and the inspector via live video streaming.

Some Milwaukee County suburban libraries have opened. For the most up-date-information about other libraries in Milwaukee County please visit the individual library websites.

Oak Creek items will not incur fines while the library is closed. All Oak Creek items currently checked out will be updated with a due date of June 15. If you have items from other libraries, remember to check your online account to confirm the due dates of those items.

Items returned in the book drop will be quarantined for a minimum of 72 hours before being checked in.

All patrons accounts set to expire September 2019 or later have been extended to August 31, 2020.

Items currently sitting on the Oak Creek Public Library hold shelf will remain available until at least June 6.

The Request button has been removed to prevent holds from building on materials and to manage delivery volume. Delivery system-wide has been suspended until at least June 1st for the safety of our staff, patrons, and communities.

Staff will be monitoring the library’s voicemail, email, and social media accounts and will respond to comments, questions, and concerns as they are able.

Municipal Court

Municipal Court sessions will resume on June 2, 2020.

To mitigate exposure and spread of illness, the court will be conducting health screening of individuals prior to entry and asking individuals to cover their faces and observe social distancing upon entry. Any individual who does not want to comply with these procedures voluntarily should contact the Municipal Court before the date on their citation by telephone, US Mail, email, or fax.

The Municipal Court will continue to accept online payments with credit cards, bank cards or e-checks, as well as mailed payments.

Public Works

The lobby of the Municipal Services building will reopen to the public on June 2.

At this time, there should be no interruption of your regularly scheduled trash and recycling pickups.

You may still request City services through the Citizens Request for Action portal. Please note that crews will complete requests when it has been determined safe to do so, for the protection of our staff and residents.

Recycling Yard

The Recycling Yard reopened on Tuesday, April 28 with regular dates/times of operation.

As a reminder, special pickups can be arranged through Public Works. Although in-person payment is not an option at this time, see mailing instructions under the Special Pickups tab on our Cleanup Services web page.